Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. Use the most popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm, R & more. Azure HDInsight enables a broad range of scenarios such as ETL, Data Warehousing, Machine Learning, IoT and more.

Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. Use the most popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm, R & more. Azure HDInsight enables a broad range of scenarios such as ETL, Data Warehousing, Machine Learning, IoT and more.

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down to share his favorite Demos from a recent conference. In this video he goes all in on Policy and how it can be applied to Azure resources. Post any questions, topic ideas or general conversation here in the comments OR online

Seamlessly integrate with the most popular Big Data solutions with a single-click. Easily extend your cluster capabilities with applications, edge nodes, and customize using script actions. In this video we will learn on how you can extend your HDInsight cluster to install more open source components. Azure HDInsight application platform: Install solutions built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem Install custom HDInsight applications Link to Channel9

Azure HDInsight is an Apache Hadoop distribution powered by the cloud. This means that it handles any amount of data, scaling from terabytes to petabytes on demand. Spin up any number of nodes at any time – we charge only for the compute and storage that you use. We are pleased to announce an easy way to

Ron Ortloff talks with Scott Hanselman about the new Azure SQL Data Warehouse compute optimized tier that enables you to analyze ever growing amounts of data more easily, and how the team used NVM Express caching for up to 100x better performance. Azure SQL Data Warehouse previews 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage (blog) Faster